Professor Eric Heinze - Are we really wedded to gay rights?

For British gay rights campaigners, 2014 already looks like a year to remember. England and Wales will join the small club of nations that allow same-sex couples to marry. Meanwhile, the Sochi winter Olympics have sparked global outrage against Russian homophobia. Surely reasons to celebrate?

6 March 2014

Not according to two Yale Law professors. In a Washington Post opinion piece, Ian Ayres and William Eskridge blast US hypocrisy over Russia’s anti-gay legislation. They highlight eight US states that maintain laws against ‘promoting’ homosexuality. Similar cries of Western hypocrisy have surfaced in the Guardian and The Spectator.